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June 5, 2017
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In Slideshow, the image in the Template Preview correctly zooms to Fit, but when you Play the slideshow, or export the video, the image reflecst the original image size. The only way to fix this is to open each image in PhotoShop, manually change the image size, and then resave the image back into Lightroom. This is extremely tedious and timeconsuming when you have 100's of images in a slideshow. A much better approach would be to have a "Check Box" in the Layout section that will automatically resize/zoom the image to Fit the screen in Play mode.

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Rob_Cullen

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My experience is that large pixel size images will down-size to 'fit' the slide-show screen, but small pixel size images will not up-size (re-sample larger) to fit.

[Zoom to Fill Frame] does NOT with 'small' images! This is the "Check Box" that should zoom to fit! IMO

Your workaround with Photoshop to up-size is not needed- the same work-around can be done entirely in Lr-Classic, in ONE batch Export.

Select all the images for the slide-show and Export them with a Resize (uncheck 'Dont enlarge') with dimensions to fit the intended slideshow video format. Use the 'exported' files for the slideshow.

If your only intention is to create the video-slideshow, then the exported images can be deleted later.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

Thomas Woodrow

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Hi all,

So the subject pretty much says it all. I'm interested in being able to sift through a folder of images like a slide show such that 1.) the images are stretched to "fill the frame" (by which I mean the longer side of the image fills edge to edge, leaving black on the shorter edge if the image is not the same aspect ratio as the screen — Lightroom Classic does this beautifully in Library or Develop mode when you go Full Screen) and 2.) they play back in random order.

What's confusing to me is that there appear to me to be settings in the Slide Show module to do both of these things: 1.) the "Zoom to Fill Frame" option and 2.) the "Random Order" option. And neither of them works. The images are shown at their "actual" pixel depth on the screen, rather than being stretched (so that in many cases there is black all around the images), and they play in the order of the folder, not randomly at all.

Am I being stupid? Do these options not do what it appears they should do?

Thanks for any advice!

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gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Sandwhichmonkey,

You didn't say but the one question I do have for you is the resolution of your images and the resolution of your screen.

Here's the deal: lets say your images are 2400 x 2000 and your screen's resolutio is 3600 x 3000. Those images do not have enough resolution to display beyond 100% and that's all that the slideshow will allow. The images can be smaller than your screen but will not be zoomed in any further. To do so would make the images fuzzy and soft and then folks would complain that watching images in Slideshow gives fuzzy/soft images.

Am I correct on the resolution issue or is it something else?

Darrall

Known Participant

There is also a long-standing bug in SLIDESHOW where the zoom function doesn’t work on smaller photos so they don’t fill the screen as do the larger photos. Thus the slideshow function is essentially useless.

I realise the slideshow seems to be limited to the pixels an image really has - an image will not be zoomed/enlarged. I could export images with small pixel count and have the export set to upscale and have these images reimported. Then use these 'upscaled' images in the slideshow, a real hassle.

But if LRC can upscale during the export process, why isn’t there an option to do this during the production of a slideshow? The code is already built in.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

That's not a bug. It's a design decision to prevent pixelation and the resulting 'Slideshow is pixelating my photos' complaints. You could add a request at Lightroom Classic | Photoshop Family Customer Community where you could garner support for this.

As to saying the code is built in, yes it is built in, but in a different area. It's not just a matter of copying and pasting. It requires large rounds of QA testing to make sure it's not actually causing worse issues.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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masplin

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I am putting together a slideshow that includes some very old and small images plus more modern ones. I have exported all the images as JPEG and resize so they are all about 1500x1000 pixels. I was therefore expecting the slideshow to show them roughly the same size. However on preview the older images are still a lot small as they were before i resized. . The zoom to fit doesn't affect these images but does mess up some of the others

Any clues how to make them appear similar size please?

Thanks

Mike

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Joe Foe Toe

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Have you checked the enlarged jpgs to see if they actually are resized as you expected? You can check in metadata. Why do you have to export the images? You could crop virtual copies in Lightroom. What version Lightroom are you using?

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masplin

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What a donkey. I was still selecting the original images not the exported ones!!!! Helps if one is not stupid

Mike

Darrall

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There is a long-standing bug in SLIDESHOW where the zoom function doesn’t work on smaller photos so they don’t fill the screen as do the larger photos. Thus the slideshow function is essentially useless and I have to use FCP to make slideshows in which every photo does fill the screen. Is there a better work-around?

F. McLion

Community Expert

The slideshow is limited to the pixel an image really has - an image will not be zoomed/enlarged.

You may try to export images with small pixel count and have the export set to upscale and have these images reimported.

Then use these 'upscaled' images in the slideshow.

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Darrall

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Agreed. But if LRC can upscale during the export process, why isn’t there an option to do this during the production of a slideshow? The code is already built in.

Darrall Cuttingrdcutting@optusnet.com.au

al_bergstein

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I have about 33 slides I have scanned into LR. All are at different sizes of original photos. Some very small, some 8x10. When I create a slide show, no matter what settings I choose, it does not resize the small photos to fill the screen, which is what I want to do. Funny, I can use the standard Library view, switch into Lights out mode, and then do my own manual slide show and all the photos are full screen, just as they should be when you edit them. That is what I want the slide show module to do! But I have tried every menu, and clicked ever setting and cannot get the slideshow module to properly resize the photos.

What is funny is that I then exported the photos to a folder on my mac, and imported them into Photos (Apples built in application for photos, what used to be iPhoto). Within minutes I setup a slide show and all the photos were displayed perfectly. Tiny ones scaled to full screen.

What am I missing in the Adobe Slide Show settings to make this happen correctly? Surely this can't be a flaw in this expensive package! It's a simple thing to want to do!

Thanks in advance...

F. McLion

Community Expert

LR applies a limit when enlarging photos for a slideshow.

May I ask for the resolution (in pixels) the images in question have?

All slide scanners I know normally easily create images with a decent resolution.

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al_bergstein

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For example: I have one of the photos that I scanned in at 579x833. Another is 452x714. I scanned them all at 150dpi. They are small b& W photos from a long time ago. I want it to be blown up during the slide show to fit the screen. I have two shows I'm producing for a family. The second show has 230 slides in it, many of them smaller family photos.

I understand your statement about "it does not zoom over 100%". First of all, it's not zooming at all. Even with the checkbox checked and Crop to Fill chosen in the Template panel. I have tried choosing different aspect previews in the Layout menu. And to be clear, I have taken the photos from the Library, filtered them by star number, then created a Collection for the sake of sorting them in order. Then I go into Slideshow and try and play it. I get a slideshow but with the slides not being enlarged *at all*.

In frustration I exported all the photos into a new folder on the desktop, at full resolution to whatever they were scanned at (essentially a copy of the jpgs). I then imported that into Apple's Photo application and created a slide show out of them there. They were all appropriately blown up to full screen size with no issue. While some of them looked like crap at that resolution, when I showed it to the customer they were thrilled.

I have a hard time believing that this professional software that I'm paying for is not capable of simply doing what I want, which is a pretty basic feature. As a long professional both still and filmmaker I am not used to having a product that claims to be professional but can't do simple tasks as well as complex ones. I have been using Lightroom for many years now. So I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on it in general.

So am I correct that I need to use a different program to get this to work as the customer expects? Or am I missing something? And if the answer is *that's the way it's programmed" then I need to file a bug, because this feature needs to be improved.

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serenabolton

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My images are too small in slideshow mode and do not fill the screen. How do I enlarge them to fit the full screen. I have ticked zoom to fill frame with no luck. Currently the images are 720x480. Many thanks Serena